I want to be a Postgrad Intern at Vend!
Location: NZ, N, Auckland
Department: Product

Company profile:
Vend is looking for some awesome new talent to come join us. You'll be working in an awesome team doing awesome things, and generally being awesome.Learn about us on our blog, or meet the team on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedInAwesome SpaceOur brand new Auckland office space is located on Nuffield Street in Newmarket, surrounded by our customers and the industry we love. It is huge, open, and shiny new with great meeting room spaces, casual working environments and plenty of space to host awesome events. We don't do cubicles, just plenty of space, whiteboards and meetings rooms. We also have a great cafe/retail space with our very own Front of House Manager taking care of our visitors and fellow Venders. Like Auckland our Melbourne office is surrounded by retail. It's a great wee space equipped with tiny houses and some awesome cardboard cutout animals.Our Toronto office is located right in the heart of downtown retail district. Like Melbourne and Auckland there's a great vibe with great coffee, boutique stores and some of the greatest restaurants in the city. Our SoMa office in San Francisco is located in the middle of the SF tech scene, just a (Biz) stone's throw from Twitter.The EnvironmentWe want you to be at the top of your game. You can wear whatever clothing you like, start work late in the morning, take breaks whenever you want and generally work the way you want to work. Who we're looking forVend is looking for people to push the boundaries. We are a hard working professional team with a wicked sense of humour, and we are looking for people who thrive in a collaborative open environment. We want passionate, hard working, talented individuals that want to lead in their field.

Job description:
It used to be that to set up a retail store, you’d have to spend mega bucks buying receipt printers and cash drawers and barcode scanners, and then top it off with thousands of dollars for hard­-to-­use software.Vend changes all that. Vend is a cloud­-based retail platform that enables retailers to accept payments, track customers, manage inventory, provide loyalty incentives and run business analytics.Got an iPad? Yup. Got $50 / month? Yup. You’re in!Since launching Vend at the end of 2010, we have signed up tens of thousands of users who sell all sorts of things. Pizza trucks. People selling supporter gear for the Ashes series. Footwear. Vets. Yarn. Furniture. Jewellery. And Mr Whippy.We have customers in more than 100 countries. Gambia ­ check. Uzbekistan ­ check. Work at Vend and you’ll come across currencies you never knew existed before (nice to meet you Costan Rican colón!).The tech side is pretty cutting edge too. Our core is built in PHP, but there is a lot of JavaScript wizardy in the front­end to make sure retailers can still use their POS even when offline. Our MySQL database gets hammered too, with hundreds of millions of rows and many updates each second. We use a number of tools to get the job done: Capistrano, Redis, Git / Github, Vagrant, Jenkins, Puppet, Resque, New Relic, Doctrine, MySQL, Objective C, PHP, JavaScript, Symfony, Rake, Selenium, Compass, SASS, jQuery, Bundler, Nginx and animated cat gifs.We are taking our most magnificent retail platform to the next level and we are hiring 20 - 30 people in the product team over the next 12 ­- 24 months. As part of this, we are looking to hire students in computer science and / or related disciplines (like engineering, science and design) for a post-graduate role.

Requirements:
Have a minimum of 5 years experience writing code for web- or iOS­-based projectsUnderstand multi­tier software architectureBe post graduate and be either completing masters or doctoral studies from science, technology, engineering, design, business or marketing faculties of a New Zealand university by 1 April 2014, or have graduated within the last six months from 1 July 2013 and are not currently employedBe available to work for 12 monthsHave experience writing automated tests and have a strong commitment to qualityUnderstand relational databases (particular MySQL) and know how to write SQLBe curious and have an appetite for learningHave familiarity and an enthusiasm for working in an Agile teamAlso, extra bonus points if you’ve worked in retail before!

Benefits:
Vend is a sweet place to work, where weirdness is welcomed and encouraged. You’ll get fresh fruit, and lollies (a balanced diet!). You can choose to work from a couch, a standing desk or a sitting desk.Our product team is high-­performing. You’ll learn a lot about Agile, about coding for scalability, and about what it takes to build a world­-class product.But perhaps most importantly, you’ll get the opportunity to join one hell of a crazy awesome ride with us. There aren’t very many New Zealand -based SaaS companies who are in the same position to make a dent in the world. If you ever want to build a start­up, come to Vend and learn first­ hand what it’s really like!Applications close 30th September 2013.